Talal bin Abdulaziz al-Saud

Talal bin Abdulaziz al-Saud (1931-) was Minister of Communications of Saudi Arabia from 1952 to April 1955 and the founder of the Free Princes Movement.

Biography
Talal was born in 1931, the twentieth son of King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia and Munaiyir, an Armenian woman. Talal was rivals with his full brother Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, and they fought over inheritance; Talal was a very wealthy young prince due to corruption in his bureau. In 1952, he became the first and last Minister of Communications before it was merged with Finance in 1955, and from 1960 to September 1961 he was the Minister of Finance. He founded the Free Princes Movement, a liberal movement that supported a Saudi constitution, and he openly criticized the Saudi regime, saying that it should be replaced by a constitutional monarchy. His private hospital in Riyadh gave 70% of its profits to free health care and 10% to children's health care, and he donated the hospital to the government as "King Abdulaziz University Hospital".